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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Back)

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Toronto, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)

29135

Ivory

Height: 63.4mm
Width: 58.6
Depth: 8.1mm
Weight: 25g

Meeting of lovers (courting couples); youth with a hawk on his wrist; trees.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror.

Object Condition
Two later holes in the upper part.

Provenance
Collection of Madame Alexandrine de Rothschild. Thomson Collection, Toronto: acquired, Sotheby's, London, 18-19 May 1967, lot 20, via Hermann Baer; since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.

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